This mainboard is based on Intel P67 Express chipset and supports LGA1155 processors. What new features does this model boast? How did they manage to offer extensive functionality at a low price? The answers to all these questions are in our today’s review!

Proprietary Utilities

The assembly process was nice and smooth and the power-up didn’t reveal any issues. Although we immediately noticed that the LEDs, which should indicate the number of active phases in the processor voltage regulator circuitry do not work the way they were supposed to. They were all lit up all the time, even when the Green Power Utility reduced the number of phases to only two.

You may notice that the appearance and functionality of this program haven’t changed over the past years. And unfortunately, the same is true for the rest f the Biostar’s brand name software. There is only the latest BIOS updating utility available on Biostar TP67XE product page, but it also looks exactly the same as a few years ago.

All other programs were taken from the provided CD disk. All of them were old versions from last year. The only program that changed its appearance was T-Overclocker, but in this case it was a change for the worse. Some time ago we came across a promising little tool, which was not free from a few drawbacks, but at the same time was very functional and easy to work with.

Now it turned into a gloomy utility that sports very unappealing looks and is hardly useful. The startup screen will display the basic info about your system CPU and mainboard:

The next section will briefly describe the installed memory modules:

“OC Tweaker” section allows changing voltages and frequencies, or selecting one of the preset overclocking modes. You can’t really overclock in the full meaning of this word, because you can’t adjust the CPU clock frequency multiplier, and it is the primary overclocking approach to Sandy Bridge.

The only section that can actually come in handy at some point is the one that monitors current voltages, fan rotation speeds and temperatures, unless you have a better program for system parameters monitoring available to you.